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Although Warsaw was home to a stock exchange since 1817, in 1945, because of political changes after World War II, it could not be recreated. It only started operating again in April 1991, after the reintroduction of the free-market economy. It is now the biggest stock exchange in the country, with more than 300 companies listed. Oddly enough, from 1991 until 2000 the stock exchange was situated in the building previously used as the headquarters of the PZPR (Polish Communist Party). The capitalization of the exchange is 440,92 billion $ (28 December 2007).
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Although the Warsaw Pact was officially renewed in 1985 for another 20 years, the political transformation of Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s profoundly weakened the organization. The USSR began withdrawing its troops from other Warsaw Pact countries, and East Germany pulled out to join West Germany as the reunified nation of Germany in October 1990. All joint military functions ceased at the end of March 1991, and in July leaders of the remaining six member nations agreed to dissolve the alliance.
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Warsaw has two enduring points of definition: the Wisla River, running south to north across the Mazovian plains, and the Moscow-Berlin road, stretching across this terrain - and through the city - east to west. Such a location, and four hundred years of capital status, have ensured a history writ large with occupations and uprisings, intrigues and heroism. Warsaw's sufferings, its near-total obliteration in World War II and subsequent resurrection from the ashes, has lodged the city in the national consciousness. In the latest era of political struggle - the emergence of Solidarity, fall of communism and the re-establishment of electoral democracy - Warsaw has at times seemed overshadowed by events in Gdansk and the industrial centres of the south, but its role has been a key one nonetheless, as a focus of popular and intellectual opposition to communism, the site of past and future power and, increasingly, as the centre of the country's rapid economic transformation.
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Warsaw has a very long history. A settlement has existed on its site since the tenth century. By the thirteenth century Warsaw was considered a city. Warsaw's location on important trade routes soon gave it national significance. In 1611, it replaced Cracow as Poland's capital.
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The Warsaw Indians traveled to Kokomo to play in the Kokomo Semi Pro Invitational over the weekend. Game one was Friday night against the Indianapolis Dodges and the trend of a silent offense continued for the Tribe. Warsaw had changes time and time again leaving 11 base runners on through 7 innings. Luckily the Indians starter Andy Miller was up to the tast holding the dodgers to 2 hits and only 3 base runners through 7 innings. The game was called and set to resume Saturday night because of a light curfew in Kokomo tied 0-0 heading to the 8th. This game was not completed as Warsaw advanced to the championship round by winning their next two games.
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Although settlements existed on the site of Warsaw in the 11th cent., the city probably grew around a castle built in the 13th cent. by a duke of Mazovia. In 1413, Warsaw became the capital of the duchy of Mazovia, which was incorporated with Great Poland in 1526. After Kraków burned, Warsaw replaced it (1596) as Poland’s capital. Warsaw grew rapidly as a commercial and cultural center, despite frequent invasions and pillages. It fell temporarily to the Swedes under Charles X (1655–56) and Charles XII (1702), was occupied by the Russians in 1792 and 1794, and passed to Prussia in 1795.
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